HB-5169, As Passed House, June 12, 2014HB-5169, As Passed Senate, June 11, 2014
December 4, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Schmidt, Walsh, Driskell, Cavanagh, Rutledge, Zemke, Greimel, Schor and Townsend and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
A bill to amend 2012 PA 387, entitled
"Regional transit authority act,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 124.542).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Authority" means a regional transit authority created
under this act.
(b) "Board" means the governing body of an authority.
(c) "City" means a city incorporated under the home rule city
act, 1909 PA 279, MCL 117.1 to 117.38.
(d) "Cost plus construction contract" means a contract under
which the contractor is paid a negotiated amount, regardless of the
expenses incurred by the contractor.
(e) "County executive" means the county executive of a county
or, if the county does not have an elected county executive, the
chair of the county board of commissioners.
(f) "Department" means the state transportation department.
(g) "Fiscal year" means the time period between October 1 of a
calendar year through September 30 of the following calendar year.
(h) "Governor's representative" means a resident of a public
transit region who is appointed to the board by the governor under
section 5(1)(a).
(i) "Local road agency" means that term as defined in section
9a of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247.659a.
(j) "Member jurisdiction" means a city or county that appoints
a member of a board under section 5.
(k) "Public transportation" means the movement of individuals
and goods by publicly owned bus, rapid transit vehicle, or other
conveyance that provides general or special service to the public,
but not including school buses or charter or sightseeing service or
transportation that is used exclusively for school purposes. Public
transportation includes the movement of individuals and goods by
privately owned bus, railroad car, street railway vehicle, rapid
transit vehicle, or other conveyance that, under a contract with an
authority, provides general or special service to the public, but
not including school buses or charter or sightseeing service or
transportation that is used exclusively for school purposes. Public
transportation is a transportation purpose within the meaning of
section 9 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.
(l) "Public transportation facility" means all plants,
equipment, work instrumentalities, and real and personal property
and rights used or useful for public transportation.
(m) "Public transportation provider" means a public or private
entity that provides public transportation services and includes a
contractor providing services to a public transportation provider.
Public transportation provider includes an authority or agency
existing on or created after the effective date of this act. Public
transportation provider does not include a street railway organized
under the nonprofit street railway act, 1867 PA 35, MCL 472.1 to
472.27. Public transportation provider includes an authority formed
under any of the following:
(i) 1963 PA 55, MCL 124.351 to 124.359.
(ii) The urban cooperation act of 1967, 1967 (Ex Sess) PA 7,
MCL 124.501 to 124.512.
(iii) 1967 (Ex Sess) PA 8, MCL 124.531 to 124.536.
(iv) 1951 PA 35, MCL 124.1 to 124.13.
(v) The public transportation authority act, 1986 PA 196, MCL
124.451 to 124.479.
(vi) The revenue bond act of 1933, 1933 PA 94, MCL 141.101 to
141.140.
(n) "Public transit region" means an area of this state
consisting of a qualified region. Public transit region also
includes a county added to a public transit region by an authority
under section 4.
(o) "Public transportation system" means a system for
providing public transportation in the form of light rail, rolling
House Bill No. 5169 as amended June 4, 2014
rapid transit, or other modes of public transportation and public
transportation facilities to individuals.
(p) "Qualified county" means a county in this state with the
largest population according to the most recent decennial census.
(q) "Qualified region" means a geographic area of this state
that includes a qualified county and the 3 counties with the
largest populations according to the most recent decennial census
that are contiguous to the qualified county.
(r) "Rolling rapid transit system" means bus services that may
combine the technology of intelligent transportation systems,
traffic signal priority, cleaner and quieter vehicles, rapid and
convenient fare collection, and integration with land use policy.
Rolling rapid transit may include, but is not limited to, all of
the following:
(i) Exclusive rights-of-way.
(ii) Rapid boarding and alighting.
(iii) Integration with other modes of transportation.
[Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.]